COVID-19

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• 11/22/2020
  

  The Rise (and Fall?) of Trump's Viral Death Cult

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Trump's cult-leader response to COVID-19 is causing the equivalent of a Jonestown every day. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/17/2020
  

  When Schools Closed, Americans Turned to Their Usual Backup Plan: Mothers

  "Mothers are the fallback plan in the United States in part because of persistent beliefs that they are ultimately responsible for homemaking and child rearing, and because of the lack of policies to help parents manage the load."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11/18/2020
  

  What the Greatest Generation had that the Covid Generation Lacks

  by Nicole Hemmer

  "The crisis, it turns out, is not the selfishness of this generation of Americans. It's the selfishness of the administration and its allies in Congress."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/18/2020
  

  Trump has Changed the Way Evangelical Christians Think about the Apocalypse

  by Thomas Lecaque

  Evangelicals have largely avoided interpreting the COVID-19 pandemic as a sign of the end times because doing so would also demand that they recognize their champion Donald Trump as a morally degenerate leader. The apocalyptic rhetoric that flowed freely under Obama has been silent this year. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  11/13/2020
  

  Trump Continuing to Fight on Could Cost American Lives, Jobs and More

  by Eric Rauchway

  Herbert Hoover's refusal to support FDR's policy agenda during his lame duck period delayed economic recovery at the cost of jobs, homes and lives. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?

  by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres

  Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  11/8/2020
  

  Reclaiming American Idealism: We Could Use A Leader Like George McGovern Again

  by William J. Astore

  Since the American voters rejected the antimilitaristic candidacy of George McGovern in 1972 the country has come to tolerate astonishing levels of mass death, of which COVID is only the latest instance.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/9/2020
  

  Why Some Stanford Professors Want the Hoover Institution Gone

  Ill-informed and arguably dangerous pronouncements about COVID-19 made by fellows of Stanford's Hoover Institution have brought longstanding tensions between the conservative think tank and the university's faculty to the surface. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  Trump Politicized COVID-19. Let’s Not Politicize The Vaccine.

  by Max Boot

  "If the Pfizer vaccine helps to free us from the threat of COVID-19, there will be plenty of credit to go around — and it won’t conform to narrow partisan categories. Reality is too messy for ideology."

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  11/5/2020
  

  The Pandemic Is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out.

  "For professors of all types, their responsibilities as teachers are causing many of them to feel pressed to meet the needs of the moment."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/31/2020
  

  Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies

  Stanford researchers, led by Professor B. Douglas Bernheim, the chairman of the university’s economics department, conducted a regression analysis. They compared the 18 counties where Mr. Trump held rallies with as many as 200 counties with similar demographics and similar trajectories of confirmed COVID-19 cases before the rally date.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/26/2020
  

  Colleges Slash Budgets in the Pandemic, With ‘Nothing Off-Limits’

  By one estimate, the pandemic has cost colleges at least $120 billion.

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• 10/25/2020
  

  Trump: Superhero or Superspreader?

  by Meredith Martin, Gillian Weiss and Bonnie Siegler

  Inspired by the Sun King’s detractors, the White House Gift Shop’s self-parodying statements, and Trump’s own Superman fantasies, we offer a medal honoring the Super Spreader.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/21/2020
  

  The Forgotten Third Amendment Could Give Pandemic-Struck America a Way Forward

  by Alexander Zhang

  Could the Third Amendment's ban on quartering of troops in private homes be expanded to establish a right to protection against pandemics? The history of troop quartering shows objections to it were closely connected with fear of disease.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  10/20/2020
  

  ‘It’s Negligence’: U. of Michigan Students Ordered to ‘Stay in Place’ After Covid-19 Cases Surge

  Washtenaw County health officials are confronting the administration of the University of Michigan over their planning process for reopening campus as local cases associated with the university surge. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/19/2020
  

  What Fans of "Herd Immunity" Don't Tell You

  by John M. Barry

  Prolonged isolation measures to fight COVID-19 do cause harm--social, emotional, and economic. But advocates of "herd immunity" are not offering a practical or safe plan to protect the vulnerable if the virus spreads on a mass scale. 

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• SOURCE: Wisconsin Public Radio
  10/17/2020
  

  Where Are We On The Roller Coaster Of History?

  Historian Jeremi Suri suggests that the Trump administration has roused social movements that can revive American democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/15/2020
  

  Trump, Biden and Masculinity in the Age of Coronavirus

  Trump and Biden both seek to embody a masculine ideal on the campaign trail, but the differences in each candidate's vision of what manliness is show that the idea is changing. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/15/2020
  

  In Fights Over Face Masks, Echoes of the American Seatbelt Wars

  The fight over seatbelt laws in the United States was fraught with trying to strike a balance between individual and public interests. Those concerns have also been reflected in similar matters of health and safety, including vaccinations, helmet laws — and masks.

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Fear of the "Pussification" of America: A Short Cultural History

  by Gregory A. Daddis

  The bizarre idea that COVID-19 can be defeated through manliness is one of the stranger cultural themes of our time, but it connects to a long history of anxiety about masculinity in a changing America that encourages violent and even self-destructive actions in the name of proving virility.